On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Currently the filters added to qdiscs are independent. So for example if you > have 2 netdevices and you create ingress qdisc on both and you want to add > identical filter rules both, you need to add them twice. This patchset > makes this easier and mainly saves resources allowing to share all filters > within a qdisc - I call it a "filter block". Also this helps to save > resources when we do offload to hw for example to expensive TCAM.
[...] > Now we can add filter to any of qdiscs sharing the same block: > $ tc filter add dev ens7 parent ffff: protocol ip pref 25 flower dst_ip > 192.168.0.0/16 action drop > We will see the same output if we list filters for ens7 and ens8, including > stats: yeah, but the stats belong to the action, not the filter, right? so you create here actually a shared action? or you also introduced in that series stats for filters, I am confused... Or.
